Academic staff
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Academics
Professor Heidi Christensen
Head of SchoolSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Automatic recognition of atypical speech, detection and tracking of verbal and non-verbal traits in speech and language, EDI issues in speech technology research and applications
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heidi.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Prosanta Gope
Senior Lecturer in CybersecuritySchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Hardware Security of the IoT Devices, 5G and Next Generation Communication Security, Decentralized Communication Security
Security & Privacy in Tactile-Internet-based Applications
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p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Thomas Hain
Professor of Speech and Audio TechnologySchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Speech processing; Audio processing; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing. Speech and Language Technologies
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t.hain@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Vitaveska Lanfranchi
Professor of Digital Health and Pervasive ComputingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Digital health, remote mobility monitoring, AI for disease progression, co-design, inclusive design, human-computer interaction
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v.lanfranchi@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi
Lecturer in Natural Language ProcessingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Robust and trustworthy large language models, Reasoning and inference in NLP systems, Bias, fairness, and responsible AI, Reliable evaluation of language models
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N.S.Moosavi@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Midhun Parakkal Unni
Academic Fellow in AI for HealthSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: AI for Health and Physiology, Dynamical Systems & Mathematical Modelling, Wearable Technologies & Time-Series Analysis, Uncertainty-Aware & Robust Machine Learning
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m.parakkalunni@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Carolina Scarton
Senior Lecturer in Natural Language ProcessingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Computational Social Science, Disinformation detection, analysis & verification, Multilingual & multimodal NLP, LLM safety, Network analysis, Corpora creation & data annotation
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c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Xingyi Song
Lecturer in Computational Media Analysis, Natural Language ProcessingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: BioMedical Text Analysis and Information Extraction, Computational Media Analysis, Subjectivity Quantification and Opinion, Mining
Affective Computing & Human-Centric AI
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x.song@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Marco Valentino
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Applications of AISchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Natural Language Processing; Explanation-Based Learning & Reasoning, Neurosymbolic AI, Data efficient & Modular AI Architectures, Reasoning & Generalisation in LLMs.
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M.Valentino@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Neil Walkinshaw
Senior Lecturer in TestingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: The application of probabilistic and statistical analysis techniques to software testing, causal Inference for software testing, state Machine Inference to infer testable models
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N.Walkinshaw@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Xu Xu
Senior Lecturer in Complex Systems ModellingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Mathematical and computational modelling of the cardiovascular system, Personalised cardiovascular healthcare, Digital twins for health, Parameter identification & state estimation
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Xu.Xu@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Delvin Ce Zhang
Lecturer in Natural Language ProcessingSchool of Computer Science
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Large Language Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Misinformation Detection, Information Retrieval, AI for Science and Healthcare
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Delvin.Ce.Zhang@sheffield.ac.uk